Honor badge "Builder of the city center"

Just in time for the 20th anniversary of the GDR on October 7, 1969, the new landmark was to be inaugurated, the television tower on Berlin's Alexanderplatz. And indeed: on October 3, the festive opening took place with great pomp. As the first guest, the Chairman of the State Council Walter Ulbricht (1893-1973) received the only golden "plaque of honor" over coffee and cake in the circle of his political squad. In the following weeks, the recently completed medal was distributed in a few silver and countless bronze specimens to deserving employees.